UPN 8 Sucks
The local UPN affiliate in my area sucks donkey gonads. This isn’t anything particularly new, since they’ve always really blown (I mean, when your call letters are “WEVU” and you make jokes in your bumpers like “We View TV!”, you have to be pretty far down on the totem pole of TV station professionalism). But after last night, I officially hate the local affiliate’s guts more than I hate the UPN network in general.
This past Wednesday, what was regarded as the best-yet episode of Star Trek: Enterprise aired. I only saw the first fifteen minutes and the last ten, because I was busy with some urgent business that came up. So I was all excited to check out the weekly rerun on Sunday at 10:00 pm. Enterprise is always rerun during this time. Except it wasn’t yesterday.
Yesterday, instead, when I turned on the big screen TV and got ready to settle in, I saw some blonde bitch giving an extemporaneous speech about a truly amazing new exercise method in which you—get this; I bet this has never been tried before—follow along “on your VCR or DVD” and get some kind of smashing new workout seemingly by magic. Of course, given that there are few things in the world that I hate more than having fitness promotional tripe shoved down my throat, I was incensed.
DOS Adventures
Last night I began my latest “gee, that sounds like fun” project: Slap together a DOS gaming box and get it loaded up with every classic game from my past, from Wolfenstein to Doom, Duke3D to System Shock, Quarantine to Heretic. The underlying reason for my doing this is so that I can play Wolfenstein again, and perhaps even start making some maps again. If all else goes well, I may even plop a fresh copy of the Wolf source back on there, load up Borland C++ 3.1 and go to town. Am I crazy? We shall see.
First, though, I had to get the hardware ready, so that’s what I spent last night doing. I thought it was going to suck, having to switch between two computers without a KVM, but I’ve got a system down that’s not too bad. My monitor has two inputs and I can switch between them with the push of a button, so that’s all taken care of. I keep two keyboards and two mice hooked up—the keyboard for the DOS box sits on top of the CPU, which is under my desk, and the mouse is hidden under the edge of my monitor so I can slide it out front when I need it. I also hooked up a 1/8” stereo minijack extension cable to the speaker output of the DOS box and routed it up to my desk, so I can plug my headphones into it when I want to switch the audio source.
